| Author | Message | ||
     Jerry_haughton |
Jim, nice pix! so, are you up early, or up late?  | ||
| Jimduncan69 |
thank you Ferris! i hope you like it. i love my Alvares. it is a RD-20sc. it wasn't very expensive. but it play's and sounds great. i don't play much acoustic stuff. but i play it at home a lot. | ||
| Pdxs3t |
LOL...Both! | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Forgot to ask when the ETA for your guitar is? | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Friday. | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Very cool, not too much longer to go! | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
tick...tock...tick...tock... so i gotta know: what is Vik Eden doing with his right hand in the pic above??? | ||
| Jimduncan69 |
two finger tapping. something Eddie Vanhalen made famous.  | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Mr. Van Halen brought it out into the public eye with the first Van Halen album and is a master at tapping. There area others out there that have also mastered left handed hammer-ons and pull off's while tapping with the right hand on the fret board. Stanley Jordon - Jazz Guitarist, amazing to hear and watch, Les Claypool - Rock Bassist and Joe Satriani - Rock Guitarist to name just a few. | ||
| Captpete |
Isn't there a black guitarist named something Johnson who does a lot of that? I saw him on a TV special of some sort a while back, but have never heard him since. My fault. He blew me away. If anyone knows who I'm talking about, I'd like to know about it. I might blow a few bucks of my next SS check before the boat interferes.  | ||
| Captpete |
Friday All this anticipation, awaiting the arrival of the mail-order bride. Let me see, here; there’s such a tangled mess of wires running across this junk-laden desk… Oh, there it is. Let me plug my crystal ball into the USB port. Friday’s the 10th, so… I’ll dial it in for the 17th, and… oh, it’s smart enough; I’ll just use The Thunderdome for location. One week into the honeymoon; this ought to be good… lots of caressing and fondling, beautiful music in the background… Wait a minute. What’s this? The groom’s stomping around the room. He looks angry. He’s shaking his left hand, like it’s in pain, and mumbling to himself. Let me turn the volume up a little bit. What? He just called her a little bitch! I guess the honeymoon’s over.  | ||
| Captpete |
Damn, Pdx3t! How do professional photographers make their pictures look so... Professional? Those are GREAT! | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Cap...You may be thinking of Stanley Jordan. Check out this video link and see if this is him. Stanley Jordon Its taken me lots of practice Cap to catch those live performances in time. Some nights I am dead on and other nights I have to work my tail off to just get that one cool pic. This last Saturday was one of those tough shoots, had decent lighting but it wasn't as bright as I would have liked it to be and the light guy insisted on messing with me all night long! One day, I hope to make it into Rolling Stone magazine. | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Here is another shot from Saturday that night that I thought turned out well.  Dan Bates - Crazy Train | ||
| Captpete |
The shots you've posted here, Jim, look to me like you had the lighting guy in your back pocket! Something Johnson? It was definitely Stanley Jordon. But I remember what he was playing as being more melodic. This clip sounds more to me like a demo of the degree of difficulty he has mastered. I can appreciate the technicality of it, but like that line from “Amadeus”… “too many notes.” Maybe the special I saw was a gig he played at the old folk’s home? I don’t think I could handle 45 minutes of this. But I know who to look for now, and maybe I can find something of his that is just a bit more… laid back. Thanks. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Let me turn the volume up a little bit. What? He just called her a little bitch! and she's stringy to boot. | ||
| Denisea |
.. stomping around the room... shaking his left hand... and mumbling to himself.  Dunno though... Haven't seen it yet, even when I was trying to off his Thong... this might be scary. | ||
| Newfie_buell |
That would be damm scary!!!! No men in thongs allowed in Newfieland!!!! | ||
| Denisea |
whoops  , sorry, another story but The Thong was previous bike - sold a couple years back (none of my doing BTW as I loved that machine). Not to worry, Newfieland is safe. btw if any man can pull off wearing a thong it would be my sweetie but I'll keep you posted on that. | ||
| Spreadem |
uuughhh...WAY more than FB2 wanted to ever know!! Good thing I got my therapist and pharmacist on speed dial....  | ||
| Denisea |
oh dear, back to cybernation for me... at least until I get my own instrument (yes two musically inclined wannabees in the house) to rock the Dome with. FB2, how's that for a change of subject. | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Good god! That wasn't the picture I wanted in my head this morning! Jerry running around the room with D in chase with Jerry yelling out woohoo, woohoo! | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
i'll sure be glad when my guitar gets here... | ||
| CJXB |
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| Henrik |
Here's a link with some relevance to the guitar topic: http://www.apple.com/pro/video/obenaus/ Be careful about clicking any of the shop links in the right column - may cause severe damage to your credit card balance. Henrik | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Court, your care package arrived in today's mail - THANK YOU! | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Henrik, that is a VERY cool link, thanks! i was just beginning to check out their DVDs this afternoon when the frikkin' cell phone went off (isn't it just like Court to call at the most inopportune times???), but i'm thinkin' that, short of one their guitars, a DVD on how they build 'em would be a cool attainable-by-mere-mortal substitute. thanks! (that is, thanks i THINK -- i didn't get far enough into their website to see how much the DVDs cost...) FB | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Ah, come on. This thread can't die, its been way too much fun! | ||
| Captpete |
OK I don’t think anyone has mentioned a capo, yet. The six-chord frammer’s secret weapon  | ||
| Court |
If you need something to talk about, explain to me. . . one lacking "natural rhythm" how to play quarter note triplets. I mean, I'm learning but at the pace of a beach ball being pushing through a pipe filled with cold molasses. Capo = 3rd fret = James Taylor |
